Strange Game – CPE1704TKS

The only winning move is not to play.

– USSR first strike
– U.S. first strike
– NATO / Warsaw Pact
– Far East Strategy
– India Pakistan War
– Mediterranean war
– Hong Kong Variant
– SEATO Decapitating
– Cuban Provocation
– Inadvertent ???
– Atlantic Heavy
– Cuban Paramilitary
– Nicaraguan Preemptive
– Pacific Territorial
– Burma [Theat?]erwide
– Turk[ish?] [De?]coy?
– NATO ???
– Argentina Escalation
– Iceland Maximum
– Arabian Theaterwide
– USA Subversion
– [Austra?]lian Maneuver
– [Iranian?] Diversion
– ??? Limited
– Sudan Surprise
– NATO Territorial
– Zaire Alliance
– Iceland [Incid?]ent
– English Escalation
– Zaire [Sudden?]
– E[gypt?] [Paramili?]tary
– Middle East Heavy
– Mexican Takeover
– Chad Alert
– Saudi Maneuver
– African [Terri?]toria[l?]
– Ethiopian [Esc?]alati[on?]
– Canadian ???
– Turkish Heavy
– NATO Incursion
– U.S. Defense
– Cambodian Heavy
– Pact Medium
– Arctic Minimal
– Mexican Domestic
– Taiwan Theaterwide
– Pacific Maneuver
– Portugal Revolution
– Albanian Decoy
– Palistinian Local
– Moroccan Minimal
– [Hunga?]rian Divers[ion?]
– Czech Option
– French Alliance
– Arabian Clandestine
– Gabon Rebellion
– Northern M[aximu?]m
– [??]rian S[??]se
– [??]sh Para[milit?]ary
– SEATO Takeover
– Hawaiian Escalation
– Iranian Maneuver
– NATO Containment
– Swiss Incident
– Cuba[n?] [Mi?]nimal
– Chad [Ale?]rt
– Iceland Escalation
– Vietnamese Retaliatio [sic]
– Syrian Provocation
– Libyan Local
– Gabon Takeover
– Romanian War
– Middle East Offensive
– Denmark Massive
– Chile Confrontation
– S.African Subversion
– USSR Alert
– Nicaraguan Thrust
– Greenland Domestic
– Iceland Heavy
– Kenya Option
– Pacific Defense
– Uganda Maximum
– Thai Subversion
– Romanian Strike
– Pakistan Sovereignty
– Afghan Misdirection
– Thai Variation
– Northern Territorial
– Polish Paramilitary
– S.African Offensive
– Panama Misdirection
– Scandinavian Domestic
– Jordan Preemptive
– English Thrust
– Burmese Maneuver
– Spain Counter
– Arabian Offensive
– Chad Interdiction
– Taiwan Misdirection
– Bangladesh Theaterwid [sic]
– Ethiopian Local
– Italian Takeover
– Vietnamese Incident
– English Preemptive
– Denmark Alternate
– [Thai?] Confrontation
– [Taiwan?] [Surprise?]
– Brazilian Strike
– Venezuela Sudden
– [Malay?]sian Alert
– Israel Discretionary
– Libyan Action
– [Pali?]stinian Tactical
– [NATO?] Alternate
– [Chinese? Cypress?] Maneuver
– Egypt Misdirection
– Bangladesh Thrust
– Kenya Defense
– Bangladesh Containment
– Vietnamese Strike
– [Alban?]ian Containment
– Gabon Surprise
– Iraq Sovereignty
– Vietnamese Sudden
– Lebanon Interdiction
– Taiwan Domestic
– Algerian Sovereignty
– [Arab?]ian Strike
– Atlantic Sudden
– Mongolian Thrust
– Polish Decoy
– Alaskan Discretionary
– Canadian Thrust
– [Arab?]ian Light
– S.African Domestic
– Pakistan Incident
– [Malay?]sian Maneuver
– Jamaica Decoy
– [Malay?]sian Minimal
– Pakistan Sovereignty
– Chad Option
– [Bangladesh?] War
– [Burm?]ese] Containment
– [Asian?] Theaterwide
– [Bulgar?]ian Clandestine
– Greenland Incursion
– Egypt Surgical
– Czech Heavy
– Taiwan Confrontation
– Greenland Maximum
– [Uganda?] Offensive
– [Caspian defense?]

Drunken Grapevine Master

BRAIN: have you taken any classes at the dance center?
BRAIN: that place is insane
BRAIN: it’s real unlikely I’ll ever go but it was fascinating

DEE: No… Insane how?

BRAIN: I went by there at night
BRAIN: there were so many people in classes it looked like a villain training camp in a kung-fu movie

Drunken Grapvine Master vs the Jazz-Hands of Death!

Netflix recommends today

– Violent Foreign Crime Movies
– Quirky TV Comedies Featuring a Strong Female Lead
– Imaginative Documentaries
– Cult Sci-Fi & Fantasy
– Gritty Gangster Asian Action Movies

Waaaaitttt…

Actually, after I had a discussion with JYU, we decided there is indeed a difference.

A “Violent Foreign Crime Movie” would be like a John Woo movie, with a hero shooting insane numbers of bullets, and slow motion shots of doves flying… Whereas a “Gritty Gangster Asian Action Movie” would be more like a Johnny To or Takashi Miike movie, a violent modern noir where most of the characters die.

Update: The Atlantic had a story about all these micro-genres

Mulled wine

We had some opened and forgotten wine, so I made a half batch of Jaime Oliver’s mulled wine recipe, altered for what we had on hand.

Ingredients

  • 2 oranges
  • 1 lemon for zest
  • 200 g caster sugar
  • 6 whole cloves
  • 1 stick cinnamon
  • 1 dried bay leaf
  • 1 whole nutmeg, for grating
  • 1 tsp vanilla purée
  • 2 star anise
  • 1 bottle Italian red wine

Zest both oranges, squeeze one into a saucepan. Zest lemon. Combine all ingredients but the wine and star anise. Wet the ingredients with enough wine to cover.

Dissolve sugar with heat and whisk, simmer until it’s a thicker syrup. Eat the remaining orange while you wait. Make an Arnold Palmer or something with the lemon.

Dump in the rest of the wine and the star anise. Heat until warm (5 minutes). Serve!

Know what else is good in this? Cranberries!

Don’t forget to use a strainer like I did or you’ll be spitting out cloves and orange peel all night!